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  • Casanova’s places

    • January 19, 2019
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    To help to get a better idea of where Casanova was born and brought up, Venice’s Casanova Museum has put together a collection of images and descriptions of places in Venice frequented by Casanova or linked to him in some way - here   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.
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  • Casanova’s unwanted escape

    • December 15, 2018
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    Casanova’s first great love was Bellino, a woman who had disguised herself as a castrato (a castrated opera singer with a unique singing voice that made them highly fashionable and capable of earning huge sums of money).  He was nineteen at the time.  They had decided to elope to Rimini when fate intervened.  Casanova had
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  • Castrati

    • April 7, 2018
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    Casanova had a number of encounters with castrati during his life, most notably Bellino.  Amongst castrati, Farinelli was regarded as one of the greatest.  Here’s a very readable article about Farinelli and the world of the castrati by Ivan Hewett from ‘The Daily Telegraph’. ‘The Prologue', and chapters 1 to 5 of 'Casanova in Paris:
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